New Music Friday: The best albums out May 2

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by Julie Bee of Marfa Public Radio to talk through the best albums released on May 2.

Featured albums:

• Car Seat Headrest, 'The Scholars' (Stream)

• Samantha Crain, 'Gumshoe' (Stream)

• PUP, 'Who Will Look After The Dogs?' (Stream)

• Jenny Hval, 'Iris Silver Mist' (Stream)

• Jolie Laide, 'Creatures' (Stream)

See the long list of albums out May 2 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Julie Bernal, Marfa Public Radio
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editors: Otis Hart and Elle Mannion
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.2	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Julie B from Marfa Public Radio.
0:13.1	Hey, Julie.
0:13.9	Hey, it's great to be here.
0:15.6	It is a pleasure to have you. And now, if you're listening, and I hope you are, you may have noticed the sounds of Sharon Jones
0:21.9	and her classic album, Naturally, that she made with the Dap Kings.
0:30.4	It has just gotten today a 20th anniversary reissue, which I think is there not only to celebrate the life and legacy of Sharon Jones, but also to make Julie and me feel old.
0:45.8	Yeah, right. Hey, when you're talking about the 90s, that doesn't really make me feel old, though. That's my time, you know.
0:56.0	Julie, were you as Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings fan?
0:58.0	Sadly, I kind of didn't get more into them until Sharon Jones passed away.
1:03.0	Anyone who plays with Lee Fields is alright with me.
1:08.0	This reissue collection includes a full disc of kind of karaoke instrumentals.
1:14.6	If you can match the late great Sharon Jones, you can't.
1:18.6	But you'll at least have the option of doing that.
1:33.7	We've got a ton of new records to choose from for this very packed release date May 2nd. We're going to talk about new records from Pupp, Samantha Crane, Jenny Vaughal,
1:37.7	and a lightning round of a bunch of other fantastic records out today.
1:41.8	But first, we're going to kick things off with car seat headrest. Car
1:44.8	Seat Headrest has a new album called The Scholars. legion me Begala
2:02.6	and yaga
2:04.6	yet
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